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Yes, somebody reported about this not long ago
Could somebody who made those 3D routines (Bertrand I think?) check it out?
It looks serious
> Hi All!
>
> While compiling 3.9.38 with gcc 3.01 I verified the patches doesn't
affect
> gcc 2.81.
> The code compiles OK, but I saw some examples crash. It could be
something
> in my system but I doubt it.
> I experimented two nasty kind of problems:
>
> 1) ex3d and other 3D examples crashed (my W95 system is in bad state and
the
> crashes also crashed the OS ...). So I thinked it was some 3D stuff. But
> cutting down the code I found that the initialization seems to be the
> problem. To be more exact: it looks like the screen to select the video
mode
> is the problem. Apparently it corrupted the heap and the first free after
it
> produced a crash.
>
> 2) I started to test it under pure DOS and without write cashe (sick of
> running scandisk ;-) and I experimented another nasty problem. In plain
DOS
> I didn't have a mouse driver installed and if I didn't explicitly call
> remove_timer(), remove_mouse(), remove_keyboard() I got crashes in RMCB.
>
> I didn't have enough time to investigate the exact source of each crash
and
> I don't know if I'll have time for it soon.
>
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